Optimal cardiac pacing after heart transplantation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1510-1527

  Melton, Iain C ^a   Gilligan, David M ^a   Wood, Mark A ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Cardiac pacemaker; Chronotropic incompetence; Orthotopic cardiac transplantation

Indexed keywords

THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BRADYCARDIA; CHRONOTROPISM; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0032707412     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00356.x     Document Type: Review

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